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  • Tbh the vast majority of people that work at walmart are probably paid above SNAP qualifying wages, unless someone has kids and their spouse doesnt work or is severely underpaid. When I worked for walmart stocking shelves they were paying $18.75 in that market. Daytime people made like $17.25 without the overnight differential. That is well over the limit to get SNAP for a single person. Plus they do offer pretty good benefits, and gave accrued PTO. And a humane break system that is standardized even in states where they dont have to offer it. I realize they dont pay as much in other markets, but they are generally above the average starting wage in any given area.

    Most smaller companies I ever worked for were significantly shittier in how they treated/paid workers than Walmart is. Walmart is honestly too soul crushing of a place to work; without them offering half decent shit to work there literally nobody would




  • Even though imaginary government lines on maps have existed for several hundred years now, it has only been considered a crime to cross them for about 100 years.

    The hard border, border control, etc didnt exist until after 1900. Before that, people in northern Mexico and the southern US just went about their business in both countries as needed, and it was a significantly more functional region of the world.

    They rally against the cartels as the reason for needing a more and more extreme hard border, but the hard border is what fucked up the entire region in the first place, thereby creating the conditions for the cartels to thrive


  • This could also not be a serial killer thing at all, and moreso be that the nurse was drugging patients to put them out. Which is still terrible, but not the same thing as intending to kill people even if some people died by malpractice of drugging them.

    I would think if a nurse really wanted to be a serial killer and was a sole on-duty nurse there are probably slicker ways to have done so than using painkillers and sedatives that would turn up on an autopsy. Not to mention painkillers and sedatives arent really a surefire way to intentionally kill anybody, even if they can. But giving them in doses that are sure to stop someones breathing would also make them show up upon investigation quite clearly.

    Sounds like this person was not a serial killer and was just drugging people to knock them out, which isnt necessarily intentionally lethal even if it can also kill. Realistically, as a palliative care nurse (even with him drugging people) some of them probably died more generally whether he happened to have drugged them or not. When dealing with people already dying I imagine it would be harder to concretely say he killed them without having massively overdosed them

    Either way though, its certainly malpractice and people certainly died. So the verdict seems fair. He knew he was rolling the dice with their lives even if not trying to kill them









  • I love how any given political poll shows that 15-20% of people live under a rock and have no perspective of a situation, yet simultaneously claim some degree of political affiliation.

    Like, if the #1 pressing issue of the day is a “not sure how I feel about this” situation for you, why do you even bother with pretending to not be entirely apolitical? Were not asking how you feel about a local school district board race where nobody can remember the names of the candidates, or how you feel about the civil war in Sudan. Were talking about the government being shutdown over one single sticking point. If you cant wrap your mind around the “complexity” of that situation then why the fuck are you going out of the way to answer polls? What use are you to a pollster if you dont know how you feel about this basic situation?